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There's one dilemma I have in Procreate, the platform I use and love for all my digital artwork!
That's filling in shapes! It's easy to colour drop and fill in your work with a flat airbrush style texture, but trying to add a different texture also is not so easy. In a few of my works recently I have wanted to create a kind of picture-book style pencil finish, and so I have been looking for a shortcut to fill in shapes which gives me a nice clear outline at the same time as giving me that grainy-style look. If you want to try this out yourself, you can watch the youtube video below which I made, which shows my process. As I say in the video notes, there are some other ways to achieve this textured effect, but this is the way I like to fill shapes.
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 Floral aesthetics are having a moment! The Guardian writes of how the 'bloomcore' trend is growing - and to be honest, I think I was into floral aesthetics and bloomcore trends before I even knew what they were!
Whether all-over-print floral homewares and busy botanical wallpapers are for you or not, flowers have significance in society in many ways. Author Beverly Seaton in her 2012 book The Language of Flowers: A History (Affiliate link)* of flowers' importance in nineteenth-century society, noting how they had been worn, used as part of celebrations, and given as gifts (9). The question of the significance of flowers leads me to a first source of inspiration for floral aesthetics. 1. Victorian-era books Many books, with titles which form some variation on the theme of the language and meaning of flowers, were produced during this era. The Miniature Language of Flowers in black and white has some sketches, and mainly lists flowers and their associated attributes. The Artistic Language of Flowers has both, in addition to colour illustrations and some poetry. Seaton refers to these as 'sentimental flower books' (16), and a simple search on archive.org gives a hint at how popular this kind of a book was in the nineteenth century. For a more up to date collection of books on flowers and their meanings, follow this link to amazon (Affiliate link)* 2. Photography I have been collecting photos of flowers constantly since I have arrived in Singapore, as there is so much colour and beauty in the landscapes here. I'm always stopping by flowers along the footpath to capture different blooms. Here is a small selection of flowers for today!
 Happy Lunar New Year! It's exciting to see all the dragons around Singapore, and very inspiring for new art projects (watch this space as some new dragon-themed collections are about to drop!) In the meantime I have another new, free art project to share! I have to admit that, even though free angpow/ red packets are available in so many places, each year I do buy a few new designs - I love the artwork (although I am not sure what to do with all the left over year of the rabbit packets from last year)! My next free printable art project is an angpow packet - I know the first few days of the Chinese/ lunar new year has passed, but given the holiday lasts for 15 days then maybe there might still be a chance for gifting, and colouring in is always fun! All you need (apart from the printer) is colouring in pencils/ crayons, scissors and some glue. I've made how-to videos on my youtube channel and on pinterest - my printer ran out of coloured ink mid-way so my version is black and white! If you found this project useful don't forget to subscribe to the Purple Waffle email list for more fun projects and ideas! Instructions: all you need to do is click on the image above and it will take you to our free printables page. If you liked these pages, please join our email list to find out when more arrive!
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